Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-19
UP IN 1 BALLOON. BOYS.
Tie Hight Of Sixteen Thousand Feet
Above the Surface Of The Earth
ATTAINED in an Hour.
Ehe Mercury Falls from Hinety.FiYe il
lie Shade AImOsj GO Freezing Point
in ~ AOuI's Time.
Exciting scenes N Tbo Big str ship-cIotes
fiCm n Signal scEC:Ce Officer aLd
p Correspondent.
CoMpHLLrp TO LAND.

/ ST.. LOUIS, Mo, June Is A telegram
from the Worlds balloon cores 1onden,
Defy, says they we're compelled to land
az Huffman, Clinton county, IL, near
Centralig at S;I5 Last night because Of the
giving oU5 Of the gas.
MUST HAVE BEEN MISTAKEN.
. DETROIT, Mich, June I6.-TEe World
balloon which left 81. Louis late ypster-
gay afternoon passed over This city shout
1890 lat night. When last seen st !
o'clock the balloon vas gCing west north
west.
PARTICULARS OF TIE TRIP.
ST. LOWS, No, June lS-Tne World
and Post-Djsp2tch balloon a.5s:ra5 C
height OF 5000 feet above tie surface
+ Of he elI,h yesterday It j:20 .. m, &c
CCTdiIG to the markings u instruments
s the Ua!red S.G:es signal service ClhceT
UazeG, who was ore % She four Ia the
car. Cnis is the highest on record il
America. At this point nc thermometer
marked 81 Correy pendent Dpfy saws
it seemed very cold, coming from the
heat O. s. 10 the shade SIC souc before.
The cir ship ipfl the earth a. II reluctant
To 20, bU. once on It's yoyage upward 4,
gained speed rapidly and YVES quick y
among the feecy clouds, which partially
oOsCGred the esrth a. trIcs
vel. Daugher;y is photograph ing
the earth, Duffy IS writing as sketch
HSzen looks NJ from MS Instruments
amazed, and sees Moore, the arOEedt,
helpless, the less Of GlCCd from his IL
Jury having rendered mia senssIGss.
liaa-n sIEGs Gus: Wee gong too
Iast!' Gaers IS mucE excitement, but it
Gains in migute, for the instruments
record a falling. Agein ne signal officer
gives warning: "We're falHDg aread-
fully" suI losses OUt q h1.GLai 81 cir
Culals. They shoot upward. Moore
nalf aroused, reaiiZcd the peril. aLI calls
al. hancs to drop ballast. The 4guds
ialI scarcely lsster llSa ire car, aua
the earth seems 20 fly upward.
FIELDS and houses spread ou5 IS vast
mgD, growing terribly CLEARER eacb
minute. Moore sings CUt: "Scmc-
things wrong, boys; five don't step nc.
we are lost" O2e thousand fee fyam
the earth end still tumb.ing madiy, zoo
and the drag rope touches the esr.h, 700
and the cheek is percepublc. 1T 400 The
balloon skins along, falling no moe The
800 feet OF the drag rope resting on the
earth gav- the relief. More ballast WIS
thrown out and the air ship again
asCeIded this time to 5000 feet The
R-unanC then noiced that the b Q Y 9
sasging and announced that e lapiil..
must be made. When within g few hun
dred feet Of land the drag rope skinned
alcng the earth, making 2 trail for four
miles, and its wake vas followed 9y c
crowd of natives. Several times they
caught the rope and We're hurled roughly
TO the ground. GA August PALMS farm,
seven miles from Centr6lia, H., his sturdy
wife gave the rope several turns around !
su apple tree and brought the monster up
with jerk. The wind caught the folds |
OF the balloon and il scared ike g kite Tor |
an hour. The farmers tugged ct the rope |
and when the aeronaut pulled the zip cord |
TO his amazemeGt he found it already !
ioose and they learned OF the cause of the |
fearful fsll go nearly disastrous TO the &C.
2upants of the air snip. The carrier |
pigeons that were released from the
balloon at 2000 feet altitude have ap-
1eared at their homes. Mr.. Hezen re-
ports the voyage q success. The balloon
Will be brought back 10 the city and ar
are now being made for
mother ascent,
AN EXPLANATION,
DETROIT, MICH, June l6.-TEe balloon
hat was seen in this vicinity last night
vas sent up by 9 local weg, who thus
"a cCeeded il fOOiDg the people.